The connection between neonatal jaundice and neurodevelopment later in life: a national birth cohort study
Won Seok Lee, Ju Hee Kim, Boeun Han, Jeewon Shin, Eunkyo Ha, Eun Lee, Ji Hee Kwak, Seonkyeong Rhie, Man Yong Han · 2026
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Won Seok Lee leads a nine-author team using Korean national records, in a 2026 study, to test whether newborn jaundice severe enough to need light therapy predicts developmental problems at school entry. Bilirubin, the pigment behind jaundice, can harm the developing brain at high levels, yet the long shadow of treated jaundice was uncertain.
From over three million births between 2009 and 2015, about one million children had screening data, and roughly 121,000 had received phototherapy. Treated jaundice carried modestly raised odds of abnormal results in gross motor skills, cognition and language at about five and a half years. Five or more days of therapy strengthened some associations. The authors adjusted for birth weight, prematurity and family income, among other factors.
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| CREATOR | Won Seok Lee, Ju Hee Kim, Boeun Han, Jeewon Shin, Eunkyo Ha, Eun Lee, Ji Hee Kwak, Seonkyeong Rhie, Man Yong Han |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55839 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |